faculty
Timothy J. Nulty, PhD
Professor
Philosophy
Contact
508-999-8766
508-999-9217
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Liberal Arts 389
Education
| 2004 | University of Connecticut | PhD |
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Introduction to the methods and principles used to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning. The course aims at imparting skill in identifying fallacies in reasoning and in using elementary formal techniques to analyze natural language arguments. Topics include moral reasoning, scientific reasoning, the nature of meaning, and the various uses of language.
Introduction to the methods and principles used to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning. The course aims at imparting skill in identifying fallacies in reasoning and in using elementary formal techniques to analyze natural language arguments. Topics include moral reasoning, scientific reasoning, the nature of meaning, and the various uses of language.
Introduction to the methods and principles used to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning. The course aims at imparting skill in identifying fallacies in reasoning and in using elementary formal techniques to analyze natural language arguments. Topics include moral reasoning, scientific reasoning, the nature of meaning, and the various uses of language.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
An introduction to philosophy as the persistent and methodical attempt to think clearly about universal problems of human life, such as ways of knowing and studies in value.
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Research
Research interests
- Philosophy of Language and Mind
- Metaphysics
- 20th Century Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Select publications
- Timothy J. Nulty (2006).
Davidsonian Triangulation and Heideggerian Comportment
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 14:3, 443-453. - Timothy J. Nulty (2005).
Fictional Structures and the Human Psyche
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 13, 73-82. - Timothy J. Nulty (2005).
Empirical Constraints and Quine’s Indeterminacy of Reference
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 43, 377-393. - Timothy J. Nulty (2005).
A Critique of Resnik’s Mathematical Realism
Erkenntnis, 62, 379-393. - Timothy J. Nulty (2003).
Davidson and Derrida on Intentions
Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 7